CIA Earthquake Machine Knocks the Wind Out of The Bejing Olympics
Shortly before the Chinese earthquakes hit, people started seeing peculiar multi-colored clouds in the sky. Weird, huh?
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China: Crackdown in Tibet (again)
My apologies to Boing-Boing. Their story, http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/16/tibet-china-blocks-y.html , is too important to not make note of: * Above left: phonecam snapshots of protests in Amdo, Tibet, over the weekend; at right, phonecam video of the same. * According to Shanghaiist (and now, mainstream news outlets), YouTube was blocked in China over the weekend, likely because of content related to the flood of pro-Tibetan-sovereignty protests in Tibet and elsewhere: International news channels such as CNN and BBC are also getting routinely blacked out. While we think this is a really poor way to deal with all the shit that's going on, we have been there many, many times, and survived. Time to turn on your VPN again, people! An * John Kennedy at Global Voices confirms the YouTube block : As Tibet transitioned into total lockdown and videos of the violent situation proliferated on YouTube , people began noticing Sat...
Pre-Colombian Journeys to North America
I am watching a show based on the Gavin Menzies' book: 1421. I thought: who got here before 1492? There is a lot of controversy that Colombus, wasn't the first, but just how much a Christopher-come-lately was he? Let Wikipedia detail the accounts of pre-Columbian arrivals: For convenience's sake, events will be preceded with the following key: H (Historical - currently accepted as fact) A (Ahistorical - insufficient evidence; postulation) M (Mythological - derived from cultural legend or religion) At times categories A and M overlap as often the destination is never fully described beyond 'a large landmass' (and never described with enough detail to conclusively prove it is in fact the Americas). Furthermore, events are often exaggerated in the retelling, thus lending a legendary quality to an ahistorical account. To about 47,000 BC ( A , H ) - Some archaeologists have presented evidence suggesting pre- Clovis culture peoples arrived in America as long ago...